Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Arts & Culture
Lost and found
On view at the Carpenter Center, “Liz Magor: Blowout” explores the meaning of objects we’ve discarded.
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Science & Tech
More than a courier
Now research suggests that a nerve cells’ axons may be making decisions on their own, challenging the dogma that the nucleus and cell body are the control centers of the neuron.
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Health
Drop and give me 40
Harvard researchers have found that the number of pushups middle-aged men can do may be a useful, no-cost tool to help clinicians assess cardiovascular disease risk during routine examinations.
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Nation & World
Final arguments in admissions suit
Harvard defended its admissions policies in U.S. District Court in Boston in a final hearing as part of a lawsuit that could change the landscape for higher education.
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Nation & World
The endless struggle over racism
Pervasive racism and hate requires a response that addresses it at various levels, from politics to public safety to schools, experts at a Harvard Chan School forum said.
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Nation & World
A spirited defense of NATO as bulwark
As NATO approaches its 70th anniversary, a new report from Harvard Kennedy School affiliates says the stalwart military alliance is in “crisis,” facing challenges from outside and within like never before.
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Health
Finding our genomic clockwork
Harvard researchers have discovered that a novel biomarker of aging in rDNA can accurately determine an individual’s chronological and biological age. The biomarker opens new opportunities for monitoring responses to interventions and lifestyle choices.
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Campus & Community
Unwinding and connecting at WinterFest
Harvard’s WinterFest gives students and others a time and place to chill out and warm up.
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Health
Platelet ‘decoys’ outsmart both clots and cancer
A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and several collaborating institutions has created a drug-free, reversible antiplatelet therapy that uses deactivated “decoy” platelets to reduce the risk of blood clots and potentially prevent cancer metastasis.
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Arts & Culture
A writer’s journey
Ruben Reyes Jr.’s path as a writer led him to found Palabritas, a Latinx literary magazine that provides a supportive space for new and experienced writers
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Nation & World
Understanding Venezuela’s collapse
Harvard Kennedy’s School’s Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development and professor of the practice of economic development, discusses deteriorating conditions in Venezuela.
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Science & Tech
Termites shape and are shaped by their mounds
Researchers investigate how centimeter-sized termites, without architects, engineers or foremen, can build complex, long-standing, meter-sized structures all over the world.
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Campus & Community
Matchmaker, make me a match
The Gazette talked to founders of three matchmaking companies that cater to a driven, cultured, well-traveled clientele: Ivy League graduates who have achieved success in their careers and are looking for life partners.
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Campus & Community
New leader for Harvard Library
Martha Whitehead, Queen’s University’s vice provost and librarian, has been named to lead Harvard Library beginning in June.
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Nation & World
The push for campus election clout
The Institute of Politics’ National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement weekend-long conference drew approximately 125 students and school administrators, who shared notes on campus voting initiatives in the 2018 elections and brainstormed how to expand on them in 2020.
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Campus & Community
Government Department’s climate survey finds satisfaction varies
The Harvard Government Department’s Committee on Climate Change, formed last March in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, has released its climate survey report.
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Health
Interaction between immune factors can trigger cancer
Harvard researchers found that interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation, setting the stage for the development of skin cancer associated with chronic dermatitis and colorectal cancer in patients with colitis.
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Health
Engineered mini-kidneys come of age
By exposing stem cell-derived kidney organoids to fluidic shear stress, A team of Harvard researchers has significantly expanded the organoids’ vascular networks and improved the maturation of kidney compartments.
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Campus & Community
Two elected to Harvard Corporation
Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected to become members of the Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their roles on July 1.
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Campus & Community
Milo Ventimiglia is feted (and roasted)
Veteran actor Milo Ventimiglia gets a campus tour and a pudding pot as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
Embracing motion and stillness
Harvard staff photographer Rose Lincoln finds moments of motion and stillness, giving you a reason to pause.
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Science & Tech
Rapid evolution, illustrated
A study in which mice were released into outdoor enclosures to track how light- and dark-colored specimens survived confirms that mice survive better in similarly colored habitats, providing insights into evolution.
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Nation & World
A ‘Prisoner’ story
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
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Nation & World
President Bacow defends higher ed
Giving a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in D.C., Harvard President Larry Bacow reaffirmed his support for colleges and universities and his belief that they can help change the world, despite fears Americans are increasingly questioning the value of a college degree.
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Work & Economy
Big Tech’s power growing at runaway speed
Harvard Kennedy School experts offer views on why the U.S. government continues to grapple with the power of technology and its impact on democracy.
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Health
Microneedle pill takes the sting out of insulin
A team of investigators from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, and Novo Nordisk has developed a microneedle pill that can deliver an oral formulation of insulin that can be swallowed rather than injected.
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Health
Toward safer bone-marrow transplants
The combination of the antibody CD117 and the drug saporin selectively targets blood stem cells, making transplantation safer by limiting collateral damage caused by the current standard of treatment, chemotherapy, and radiation.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard: America’s Bauhaus home
Walter Gropius, who would become a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, founded the Bauhaus movement in Germany and ensured that much of its output would have a final home at the University. An exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums features that material.
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Science & Tech
Microbial manufacturing
Emily Balskus and a team of researchers untangled how soil bacteria are able to manufacture streptozotocin, an antibiotic and anti-cancer compound.
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Nation & World
New center takes Harvard into rural schools
With the launch of a new national initiative and a network of district partners, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will partner with rural schools to move the needle on absenteeism and college readiness and enrollment.
